Saturday 7th September BBC Portland Place.



This was a day the BBC will never forget, as protesters assembled opposite the BBC. By 1pm hundreds of people were facing the BBC, banners were attached to the barriers and there were many and varied, but all carried the same message to shame the BBC who continue to collude with the “vivisection industry” and act as a puppet for the pro-vivisection propaganda machine. People took advantage to fuel their energies with grateful thanks to the Veggies Campaign.

The protest started promptly at 1pm, with excellent anti-vivisection speeches from Steve Beddard (Countdown to Abolition) Pat Rattigan (BAVA) and
Cris Iles. (VIN) All speeches were acknowledged with loud enthusiasm by the assembly.

We then, accompanied by the police walked across the road into the BBC to hand in a letter, we thought the letter might be refused so the original was posted to Greg Dyke the previous Sunday, however to our surprise the Duty Manager accepted the letter. We later discovered that it was in fact the police who persuaded him to accept the letter, grateful thanks to the police.

To the delight of the protesters and photographers, a BBC TV license, entitled
“BBC LICENSED TO KILL” was burned in front of the BBC.

Then we were ready to take our protests through Central London. A very high profile route had been agreed, to Trafalgar Square. The Judicial Inquiry Banner lead the rally followed by drummers and the protesters. We marched through Portland Place, Regent Street down into Oxford Circus. Hundred of tourists and shoppers watched, joined in and read our leaflets handed out by our people on the pavements. As we turned into Piccadilly tourists and shoppers were leaning on the barriers taking photos, the response from the general public was brilliant.

The call of the day was “SHAME ON THE BBC – LICENSED TO KILL”.

Our final destination Trafalgar Square, where we had a two- minute silence for
“WASTED LIVES”. The Square resounded with noise after the silence, whistles, sirens, drumming, shouting. What an amazing end to an amazing day that the BBC will never forget. Then on to Veggies Campaign for refreshments.

To all who assembled, this is the beginning of the end of pseudo-science, this is a war that we can win, watch this site for further news, we shall return to the BBC time and time again, until our demands are met. We will shame them into complying with their own Charter Requirements. Write to the BBC and demand that they televise the debate late November. Ray Greek (AFMA) debates Mark Matfield (RDS) and Steve Ladyman (Pfizer) on prime time television.



Cat
Co-Founder of The Judicial Inquiry Campaign.